The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-01-05

bore their merry freight down State street
as far as Capital Hall, or even to the Mont
pelier House.
AMONG the most attractive Of the numer-
ous calendars which have been received at
this office are those of G. |. Hood & Co.,
Lowell, Mass, the Boston Herdid, the
Continental Fire Insurance Company, Car
ter, Rice & Co., Boston, the National Life
Insurance Company and Messrs. Wild x
Stevens, Boston. The first three present
pleasing combinations of beauty and utility,
of art and advertising, and are Autographed
in many delicate colors: the rest are
splendid specimens of the engraver's art
THERE will be public installation of the
officers of Mt. Zion Commandery, No. Q, at
Masonic Hall, Montpelier, Thursday even
| ing, January 6, at seven o'clock, to which
all members of the Masonic fraternity, with
their ladies and friends, are cordially in
.vited Right Eminent Andrew j. Bun
ton, past grand commander of New Hamp-
shire, assisted by Right Eminent j. w.
! Hildreth, will perform the installation cere-
monies. All sir knights are ordered to as
semble at the asylum, in full uniform, at
half-past six o'clock. The order of knights
Templar will be conferred after the installa-
ton ceremonies. 1t is expected num-
Der of visiting sir knights will be present.
THE Marvin toboggan slide is open to the
public and the delights of the popular sport
! are beginning to be realized by Montpelier
people. The slide is an excellent one and
| already exceeds, in many respects the
highest anticipations of the owners and
builders. The condition of the track is con-
| tinually being improved and will soon be
all that can be desired, and the slide is sure
| to be a favorite resort for people of all ages.
1t will probably be open every afternoon
and evening for the present, but system of
signals, to he displayed at some central
point in the village and by which all may
be kept informed of the opening and closing
of the slide, will soon be arranged. Season
tickets may be obtained at the Phinney
1 bookstore and single admission tickets will
be sold at the slide.
THE annual meeting of the National Life
Insurance Company was held in its office
on the 3d instant The election of directors
under the charter, as amended at the recent
session of the Legislature, resulted as fol-
lows Messrs. Paul Dillingham;, Timothy p.
Redfeld, Charles Dewey and w. II. II.
Bingham We're elected for four years
George w. Reed, Dudley c. Denison and
Frederick Billings for three years. Edward
Dewey, James G. Houghton and Fred Il.
Smith for two years; Perley =. Ptkin.
Charles T. Sabin and James 7. Phelps for
one year. The board of directors unani-
mously elected Charles Dewey, president;
| Edward Dewey, vice-president and actuary
George w. Reed, secretary; James c.
Houghton, treasurer; Osman ID. Clark, as
sistant secretary, and Sumner Putnam,
MD, medical examiner. The past year
has been the most prosperous in the exist
ence of the company. The number of poll
cies issued in 1886 was 1854, insuring
S6,037 900. The premium receipts for the
year were S71S0OO, and the interest receipts
were S1S7 ,039. The latter item was sufti-
cient to pay the entire losses during the
year by death and endowment. The assets
were increased over 100000.
WE take pleasure in acknowledging the
courtesy of Mr.. G. Def. Bancroft, by which
we are enabled to give our readers inter
esting facts concerning the mortuary rec
ord of Montpelier for 1886. The table pre-
pared by him IS as follows: Whole mum
ber of deaths in town during the year 1886
fifty-six. To this number might be added
eight which occurred on Berlin side. o.
the first number, all but three occurred in
the village. Twenty-seven were males and
twerty-nine wore females, and the deaths
occurred in each month as follows: January
five; February four; March, three; April
three; May, seven; June, six; July, four
August, four; September, five; October
four; November five; December, six. Six
died of consumption, six of cerebro-spina
meningitis, five Of pneumonia five of heart
disease, four of paralysis, three of old age
and two each of kidney disease, diphtheria
hemorrhage of the lungs, typhoid fever
lung fever and inflammation of the bowels
one from accident and fourteen from vari
GUS other causes. Two were under one
year of age, five between one and two years
five between two and three years, on,
between five and ten years, one between
ten and fifteen years, one between tifteeI
and twenty years, two between twenty ant
, twenty-five years, three between twenty
five and thirty years, none between thirty
and thrty-fve years, two between thirty
five and forty years, one between forty ant
forty-five years, five between forty-tive ant
fifty years, three between fifty and fifty
five years, two between tifty-five and siXt,
wears. one between sixty and sXty-fiv,
hDtxU = VI tN-tiX nj
years, eight between seventy and seventy
five years, three between seVenty-tive ant
eighty years, five between eighty and eighty
. five years, two between eighty-iiye anC
ninety years and one (the oldesD at ninety
two years. Average age of the whole mum
t Der. fifty years average age of the clever
oldest, eighty-three years. Twenty wer
; males over twenty-one years OF age an'
twenty were females over the same age
OF these, fourteen were husbands and si'
4 were wives, four were widowers and clever
) We're widows. In 1885 there were tifty-tw,
deaths in town and seven on Berlin side
t The average age of those in town tina
, year was forty-five years. Average of tn
| eleven oldest, eighty-three years and 81!
months. The average number of deaths il
town during the ten previous years wa
, fifty-eight."
, MONTPELIER village meets all the require
= ments for the establishment of the carrie
{ and free-delivery system here, except tina
. the houses and places of business are still
' unnumbered. 1t is desirable that this ol
5 stacle should be speedily removed, and al
must recognize that the advantages of nun
$ bering are not confined to the post-otlce de
, partment alone. Messrs. Thomas x Abbott
: Massachusetts parties, well recommended a
competent and skilled in the details essen
= tial to the efficiency of a system of number
ing, and who, we understand, are about pre-
: pairing directory of Montpelier, have re
+ Gently brought the matter to the attentio
of our people, and the opinion has bee
:, generally expressed that the only correc
way to have the numbering done is by orde
of the bailtfs, and at public expense, sine
so many of the people are either inditferen
- to the subject or too poor to bear individl
ally the expense which would be incurred
even though it he slight. The bailifis hay
t ing been asked to do the numbering at tn
expense of the village, and having, for ref
sons best known to themselves, declined I
G do so, petition was addressed to them an
Y circulated on Monday for signatures b
II G. Def. Bancroft, who, in few hours, $,
Ii cured the signatures of over four hundre
G taxpayers, most of them owners of real e
y tate. The number included all the town o
= ficers and most of the prominent busines
n men, and cannot be taken other than as
$ very liberal assurance that the village woul
V support any reasonable action which th
bailiffs might have taken in the matter. I'll
r petition was presented to those officers MOI
=, day evening, but does not seem to have ha
the desired influence with them. We ia
e to see why they should decline so general